Thighpaulsandra Quotes

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.

Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.

I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me.

I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

I'm a bit of a hoarder, so I did tend to buy things and just hang on to them.

There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they know the specifications and everything, but they don't really get to know them.

When I only had one or two synthesisers you learn how to do everything on those things and you know them inside out. I think that's the best way to be with them.

I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea in my head and then I'll pursue it 'til I get there.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.